Urban Quotes - Page 15

• Part of my affinity with urban music comes from being on 'Kids Incorporated,' 'cos we used to sit around and listen to Chaka Khan and Prince, and I got influenced by all that. Then gangsta rap got started, and I was infatuated with that - maybe that's why I'm fascinated by guns.

  Fergie

  Rap, Kids, Gun

  "Fergie admits drugs shame!" by Caroline Sullivan, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2006.

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• The global phenomenon of poverty tourism - or 'poorism' - has become increasingly popular during the past few years. Tourists pay to be guided through the favelas of Brazil and the shantytowns of South Africa. The recently opened Los Angeles Gang Tour carries visitors through battle-scarred territories of urban violence and deprivation.

  Leslie Jamison

  Past, Years, Battle

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• Creating your own urban farm is as simple as planting your flowerbeds with edibles.

  Greg Peterson

  Simple, Creating, Farms

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• Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Car, Important, Transportation

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• As reforms have come into India, as India has started opening up, prosperity is increasing, as is demand for urban housing.

  Kushal Pal Singh

  Opening Up, India, Reform

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• Visits to crowded Indian urban centers unleash sensory assaults: colorful dress and lilting chatter provide a backdrop to every manner of commerce, from small shops to peddlers to beggars.

  Steven Rattner

  Dresses, Assault, Peddler

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• Things go in cycles. It's like fashion, like flares go out then skinny jeans come in, people want something fresh. It's the strongest ever urban scene at the moment and I hope it can progress and keep getting stronger and be the base for something larger.

  Katy B

  Fashion, Jeans, Want Something

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.

  Sara Paretsky

  Country, Mean, Magic

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• I have a very pop voice, but there's so much of me I associate mostly with urban music, so I try to blend the two.

  Aubrey O'Day

  Two, Voice, Urban Music

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• There's a lot of people I'd like to write with, like Keith Urban or even as far out as Stevie Wonder.

  Hunter Hayes

  Writing, People, Keith

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• It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but they also need the help of urban planners, schools, libraries and other community agents to find nature that's accessible.

  Richard Louv

  School, Kids, Community

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• I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.

  Eric Kripke

  Urban Legends, Obsession, Lifelong

  "TV.com Q&A: Supernatural creator Eric Kripke". Interview with Tim Surette, www.tv.com. January 10, 2008.

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• So the physicality of that and the just the sheer lack of urban noise and machinery - just the wind, the water and your breath, you know that kind of thing - it was pure poetry and you know I treasure that.

  DJ Spooky

  Wind, Water, Treasure

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of Postmodern skyscrapers.

  Bruce Sterling

  East Berlin, Europe, Cities

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• I wouldn't call it ["Wild Bill Hickok"] an urban legend, but I guess I'd call it a rural legend that the cowboy was always soft-spoken, mild-spoken, well-mannered.

  Keith Carradine

  Cowboy, Urban Legends, Bills

  "Keith Carradine on Deadwood, Fargo, and Madonna". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.

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• I can only wonder what astronauts must feel like or something like that when you're really in the space of silence and you are feeling and breathing in a way that you're really aware of your muscle and bone and the breath and the body and the movement and all of those things that just you take for granted in the urban landscape.

  DJ Spooky

  Breathing, Space, Silence

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I'm a kid from New York, so urban life reflected into art and music was around me and accessible and tangible.

  Zoe Saldana

  Art, New York, Kids

  "'Star Trek Beyond' stars on 'uncomfortable conversations,' Sulu's sexual orientation and the future". Interview with Marc Bernardin, www.latimes.com. July 21, 2016.

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• So he [Sigmund Freud] called this "the uncanny" and he also referred to cities as well, like the idea of walking through the city and the way the urban landscape could lead you to a sense of disorientation and to a kind of, you know, sense of repetition. And the way a city can unfold as you walk.

  DJ Spooky

  Cities, Ideas, Landscape

  Source: bigthink.com

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• What I wanted to try and figure out was, okay, in contemporary 21st century life the alienation between the self and the land around you or the self and even the urban landscape. You name it.

  DJ Spooky

  Self, Land, Names

  "Big Think Interview With DJ Spooky". bigthink.com. April 08, 2010.

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• Urban pop culture is its own phenomena that is for some reason is left out of Hollywood. It's the most mainstream thing there is.

  Russell Simmons

  Hollywood, Culture, Reason

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• I don't really concentrate on Urban AC or whatever. I don't concentrate on genres or how people section off songs for radio.

  B.J. The Chicago Kid

  Song, People, Radio

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• There's something about urban life - you walk out your door, and you're in a steady of stream of life happening around you, and it's very easy to get caught up in that stream and simply kind of keep on moving.

  Dani Shapiro

  Moving, Doors, Kind

  "Book Release: Devotion". Interview with Kari Wethington, www.elle.com. January 7, 2010.

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• I felt that there's an obligation when writing a piece about an urban expressway made in the 50s to acknowledge the context, and Robert Moses is sort of an iconic figure in New York, and he influenced the shape of the city more than anyone else before or after him. He was one of the most powerful and influential civic architects in the world, because of how much he transformed the city. He built multiple bridges and highways and parks and recreational spaces, beaches - in the course of a few decades, he completely changed the city

  Sufjan Stevens

  Beach, New York, Powerful

  Source: thequietus.com

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• There's an aesthetic theme, which is cities at two o'clock in the morning. Not cities packed with people going out to clubs and dancing but desolate, empty streets. It's off-putting but there's a strange comfort to it as well, that desolate urban environment.

  Moby

  Morning, Cities, Two

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• You can't find an uglier urban environment than the centre of Hollywood, but then you go to Griffith Park, you go to the beach, you go to the mountains, and it's rural. I live up in the Hollywood Hills and I have frogs, owls, coyotes, mountain lions - but I'm ten minutes from the centre of the city.

  Moby

  Beach, Cities, Hollywood Hills

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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